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* '''[http://bioinformatics.oxfordjournals.org/content/early/2016/05/05/bioinformatics.btw203 gkmSVM: an R package for gapped-kmer SVM.]''' [[pdf]] [[tutorial]] Ghandi, M, Mohammad-Noori M, Ghareghani N, Lee D, Garraway L, and Beer MA. Bioinformatics 2016.
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<h3>Postdoctoral Fellowship in Computational Genomics at Johns Hopkins University </h3>
  
* '''[http://elifesciences.org/content/5/e11613v1 Epigenomic landscapes of retinal rods and cones.]''' Mo, A, Luo, C, Davis, FP, Mukamel, EA, Henry, GL, Nery JR, Urich, MA, Picard, S, Lister, R, Eddy, SR, Beer, MA, Ecker, JR, and Nathans, J. eLife 2016.
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A postdoctoral position is available in the Department of Biomedical Engineering, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine to work with Dr. Michael Beer to develop novel computational models at the forefront of regulatory genomics as part of the ENCODE project.  Our laboratory actively analyzes and collaborates to generate functional genomic data (DNase-seq, ATAC-seq, MPRA, RNA-seq, Hi-C) to unravel the underlying DNA sequence code which specifies cell-type specific enhancer activity and regulatory contributions to a wide range of human diseases.  Our lab is housed in the Institute of Genetic Medicine which provides a highly collaborative and dynamic environment and opportunities to directly evaluate and inform our computational models. For more details on our research see www.beerlab.org.
  
* '''[http://www.nature.com/ng/journal/vaop/ncurrent/full/ng.3331.html A method to predict the impact of regulatory variants from DNA sequence.]''' Lee D, Gorkin DU, Baker M, Strober BJ, Asoni AL, McCallion AS, Beer, MA. Nature Genetics 2015.
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<h5>Qualifications:</h5>
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1) The ideal applicant should have a PhD degree and publication record in computational biology, genomics, biomedical engineering, applied mathematics or physics, or other related fields with strong quantitative training.  
  
* '''[http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25582907 Enhanced transcriptome maps from multiple mouse tissues reveal evolutionary constraint in gene expression.]''' Pervouchine DD, Djebali S, Breschi A, Davis CA, Barja PP, Dobin, A, Tanzer A, Lagarde J, Zaleski C, See L-H, Fastuca M, Drenkow J, Wang H, Bussotti G, Pei B, Balasubramanian S, Monlong J, Harmanci A, Gerstein M, Beer MA, Notredame C, Guigó R, Gingeras TR. Nat. Comm 2015.
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2) Strong programming skills in C/C++, Python, or equivalent are required.
  
* '''[http://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0140557 Identification of predictive cis-regulatory elements using a discriminative objective function and dynamic search spaces.]''' Karnik, R, and Beer MA. PLOS One 2015.
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Interested applicants should email curriculum vitae and at least three letters of recommendation to Dr. Michael Beer (mbeer@jhu.edu). Applications will be considered until the position is filled. The Johns Hopkins University is an Affirmative Action / Equal Opportunity EmployerThere are no citizenship restrictions.
 
 
* '''[http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25413365 Comparison of the transcriptional landscapes between human and mouse tissues.]''' Lin S, Lin Y, Nery JR, Urich MA, Breschi A, Davis CA, Dobin A, Zaleski C, Beer MA, Chapman WC, Gingeras TR, Ecker JR, Snyder MP. PNAS 2014.
 
 
 
* '''[http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25409824 A comparative encyclopedia of DNA elements in the mouse genome.]''' Mouse ENCODE Consortium (includes Lee D and Beer MA). 2014. Nature 515:355–364.
 
 
 
* '''[http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25319996 Divergent functions of hematopoietic transcription factors in lineage priming and differentiation during erythro-megakaryopoiesis.]''' Pimkin M, Kossenkov AV, Mishra T, Morrissey CS, Wu W, Keller CA, Blobel GA, Lee D, Beer MA, Hardison RC, Weiss MJ. 2014. Genome Research.
 
 
 
* '''[http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25033408 Enhanced Regulatory Sequence Prediction Using Gapped k-mer Features.]''' Ghandi M*, Lee D*, Mohammad-Noori M, and Beer MA. 2014. PLoS Computational Biology 10(7):e1003711.
 
 
 
* '''[http://www.horizonpress.com/genomeanalysis Mammalian Enhancer Prediction.]''' Lee D, Beer MA. 2014. Genome Analysis: Current Procedures and Applications. Horizon Press.
 
 
 
* '''[http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23861010 Robust k-mer Frequency Estimation Using Gapped k-mers.]''' Ghandi M, Mohammad-Noori M, and Beer MA. 2013. Journal of Mathematical Biology. (Epub ahead of print)
 
 
 
* '''[http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23771147 kmer-SVM: a web server for identifying predictive regulatory sequence features in genomic datasets.]''' Fletez-Brant C*, Lee D*, McCallion AS and Beer MA. 2013. Nucleic Acids Research 41: W544–W556.
 
 
 
* '''[http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23019145 Integration of ChIP-seq and Machine Learning Reveals Enhancers and a Predictive Regulatory Sequence Vocabulary in Melanocytes.]''' Gorkin DU, Lee D, Reed X, Fletez-Brant C, Blessling SL, Loftus SK, Beer MA, Pavan WJ, and McCallion AS. 2012. Genome Research 22:2290-2301.
 
 
 
* '''[http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22912661 Group Normalization for Genomic Data.]''' Ghandi M, and Beer MA. 2012. PLoS ONE 7:e38695.
 
 
 
* '''[http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21875935 Discriminative prediction of mammalian enhancers from DNA sequence.]''' Lee D, Karchin R, and Beer MA. 2011. Genome Research 21:2167-2180.
 
 
 
* '''[http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21720494 Identification of Novel Phosphorylation Motifs Through an Integrative Computational and Experimental Analysis of the Human Phosphoproteome.]''' Amanchy R, Kandasamy K, Mathivanan S, Periaswamy B, Reddy R, Yoon WH, Joore J, Beer MA, Cope L, Pandey A. 2011.  J Proteomics Bioinform 4:22-35.
 
 
 
* '''[http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19430481 A common allele in RPGRIP1L is a modifier of retinal degeneration in ciliopathies.]''' Khanna H, Davis EE, Murga-Zamalloa CA, Estrada-Cuzcano A, Lopez I, den Hollander AI, Zonneveld MN, Othman MI, Waseem N, Chakarova CF, Maubaret C, Diaz-Font A, MacDonald I, Muzny DM, Wheeler DA, Morgan M, Lewis LR, Logan CV, Tan PL, Beer MA, Inglehearn CF, Lewis RA, Jacobson SG, Bergmann C, Beales PL, Attié-Bitach T, Johnson CA, Otto EA, Bhattacharya SS, Hildebrandt F, Gibbs RA, Koenekoop RK, Swaroop A, Katsanis N. 2009. Nat Genet. 41:739-45.
 
 
 
* '''[http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19253296 Identification of miR-21 targets in breast cancer cells using a quantitative proteomic approach.]''' Yang Y, Chaerkady R, Beer MA, Mendell JT, and Pandey A. 2009. Proteomics 9:1374-1384.
 
 
 
* '''[http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19211792 Lin-28B transactivation is necessary for Myc-mediated let-7 repression and proliferation.]''' Chang T-C, Zeitels LR, Hwang H-W, Chivukula RR, Wentzel EA, Dews M, Jung J, Gao P, Dang CV, Beer MA, Thomas-Tikhonenko A, and Mendell JT. 2009. PNAS 106:3384-3389.
 
 
 
* '''[http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/18071029  Metrics of sequence constraint overlook regulatory sequences in an exhaustive analysis at phox2b.]''' McGaughey DM, Vinton RM, Huynh J, Al-Saif A, Beer MA, and McCallion AS. 2008. Genome Research 18:252-260.
 
 
 
* '''[http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/17540599 Transactivation of miR-34a by p53 Broadly Influences Gene Expression and Promotes Apoptosis.]''' Chang T-C, Wentzel EA, Kent OA, Ramachandran K, Mullendore M, Lee KH, Feldmann G, Yamakuchi M, Ferlito M, Lowenstein CJ, Arking DE, Beer MA, Maitra A, and Mendell JT. 2007. Molecular Cell 26: 745-752.
 
 
 
* '''[http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/15870260 Functional Characterization of a Novel Ku70/80 Pause Site at the H19/Igf2 Imprinting Control Region.]''' Katz DJ, Beer MA, Levorse JM, and Tilghman SM. 2005. Mol Cell Biol 25:3855-3863.
 
 
 
* '''[http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/14672978 Whole-Genome Discovery of Transcription Factor Binding Sites by Network-Level Conservation.]''' Pritsker M, Liu Y-C, Beer MA, and Tavazoie S. 2004. Genome Research 14:99-108.
 
 
 
* '''[http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/15084257 Predicting Gene Expression from Sequence.]''' Beer MA and Tavazoie S. 2004. Cell 117:185-198.
 

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Postdoctoral Fellowship in Computational Genomics at Johns Hopkins University

A postdoctoral position is available in the Department of Biomedical Engineering, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine to work with Dr. Michael Beer to develop novel computational models at the forefront of regulatory genomics as part of the ENCODE project. Our laboratory actively analyzes and collaborates to generate functional genomic data (DNase-seq, ATAC-seq, MPRA, RNA-seq, Hi-C) to unravel the underlying DNA sequence code which specifies cell-type specific enhancer activity and regulatory contributions to a wide range of human diseases. Our lab is housed in the Institute of Genetic Medicine which provides a highly collaborative and dynamic environment and opportunities to directly evaluate and inform our computational models. For more details on our research see www.beerlab.org.

Qualifications:

1) The ideal applicant should have a PhD degree and publication record in computational biology, genomics, biomedical engineering, applied mathematics or physics, or other related fields with strong quantitative training.

2) Strong programming skills in C/C++, Python, or equivalent are required.

Interested applicants should email curriculum vitae and at least three letters of recommendation to Dr. Michael Beer (mbeer@jhu.edu). Applications will be considered until the position is filled. The Johns Hopkins University is an Affirmative Action / Equal Opportunity Employer. There are no citizenship restrictions.